“There was a lot of pre-planning to get the documentation and utilize the documentation. … It seemed to be successful for a while until he was finally detected.”

Day was arrested Oct. 25 at a CIBC branch on Barrington Street in Halifax, where he tried to set up an account using false ID’s in the name of another man.

Police had been alerted about suspicious activity three days earlier, after Day opened accounts at Bank of Montreal branches in Bedford and Halifax.

After Day was in custody, officials with the Bank of Nova Scotia contacted police to report that he had also visited some of their branches.

Day used forged driver’s licences from Quebec and British Columbia to present himself as other people. He also showed bank staff fake phone bills and pay stubs.

“There was co-operation, apparently, between the chartered banks and they were on the lookout for Mr. Day after these things started to come to light,” Sherar said.

Crown attorney Danielle Bastarache said the conspiracy charge involved Day helping an unidentified person obtain a bank card, which was later used in Laval, Que., and Cornwall, Ont., to defraud BMO of $6,378.